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“They run one, two, three, and make go in the boat that time.”
“当时，他们把一个、两个、三个，一起放到独木舟上逃跑了。”
"Well, and what do the men do with those they take?"
“那这些人会怎么处置抓到的人呢？”
“Eat them all up.”
“把他们统统吃光。”
This was not good news for me, but I went on and said, “Where do they take them?”
这对我来说不是个好消息，但是我继续说道，“他们把人带到哪去了？”
“Go to next place where they think.”
“带到别的地方了，他们想去的地方。”
“Do they come here?”
“他们来过这吗？”
“Yes, yes, they come here, come else place, too.”
“是的，是的，他们来过这里，也会去别的地方。”
“Have you been here with them twice?”
“你跟着他们到过这里两次吗？”
“Yes, come there.”
“是的，来过这。”
He meant the northwest side of the isle; so to this spot I took him the next day. He knew the place and told me he was there once, and with him twelve men. To let me know this, he placed twelve stones all in a row, and made me count them.
他示意了一下岛的西北方；所以第二天，我把他带到那里。他知道那个地方，他告诉我他和12个人一起去过那里。为了让我知道这件事，他把12个石子排成一排，让我数数。
He told me that up a great way by the moon—that is, where the moon then came up—there dwelt a tribe of white men like me, with beards. I felt sure they must have come from Spain to work the gold mines; so I asked him: “Could I go from this isle and join those men?”
他告诉我，在月亮旁边的一条大路上，也就是月亮升起的地方，住着一个部落，那里有很多像我这样留着胡须的白人。我确信他们一定是从西班牙来开采金矿的，所以我问他：“我能从这个岛上出发，加入那些人吗？”
“Yes, yes, you go in two boats.”
“是的，是的，可以坐两只独木船去。”
It was hard to see how one man could go in two boats, but what he meant was a boat twice as large as my own.
我不明白一个人坐两只独木舟去是什么意思，但费了好大的劲，我才弄清楚他的意思。原来是要用一只很大很大的船，要像两只独木船那样大。
“Then will you go back to your land with me?”
“你会和我一起回到你的部落去吗？”
He said he could not swim so far; so I told him he should help me to build a boat to go in. Then he said, “If you go, I go.”
他说自己不能游那么远；所以我告诉他，他要帮我建造独木舟用来乘坐。然后他说，“如果你去，我就去。”
“I go? Why, they would eat me!”
“我去？为什么，他们会吃了我！”
“No, me make them much love you.”
“不会的，我会让他们爱你。”
